For the last five years, multi-instrumentalist Marcus Hamblett has earned his bread and butter as a session musician mostly touring internationally with folk/pop acts.

However, debut solo album Concrete is an entirely different beast, combining free improvisation with collage in a way that hints at Faust, Tortoise and Six Organs of Admittance. Vintage analog synths and awkward guitar melodies intermingle with ghostly female vocals, betraying the influence of Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai‘s 70’s horror theme music.

The Quietus said the album “could be called post-rock if it didn’t also sound pre-rock, or maybe as if rock had never happened and folk, modern jazz and the classical avant-garde had merged into a stream of hip, innovative music to soundtrack the changes and discontents of the second half of the twentieth century instead, and Joe Meek had dug John Cage.”

Hamblett is also a member of many other bands including Eyes & No Eyes and Sons of Noel and Adrian and has worked as a producer, arranger or instrumentalist with countless others including Fear of Men, Laura Marling, Landshapes,Rozi Plain, Bear’s Den, Peggy Sue, Willy Mason, Broken Social Scene and Dan Mangan.

The live show normally sees Hamblett improvise on modular synth and/or guitar with drummer and frequent collaborator Thomas Heather.